Solaris Training : Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration (Essential Operations)

Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration (Essential Operations)

Solaris Training Overview

This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup and manage a Solaris 11 system. The course will also use a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to teach system administrators advanced topics, for long-term mangement of the system.

Systems: thru Solaris 11.0 thru 11.2 SPARC and x86/x64 platforms.

Solaris Training Prerequisites

It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the Solaris 11 Operating System Essentials course, or has equivalent system time as a user.

Solaris Training Course duration

This course normally requires five (5) days, approximately 60% lecture, and 40% lab time.

Solaris Training Course Objectives

On completion of this course, a systems administrator should be able to install, update, and boot the Solaris 11 operating system; set up user accounts and directories; prepare queues for use; perform backups for integrity and performance reasons; monitor the system for performance and do basic setup of network software and capabilities.

Solaris Training Course outline

Advanced System Concepts for System Administrators

Process concepts
Shell command usage and review
Optimizing system help information
System administrator functions
Using the root account (role)
Introduction to Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Using the GNOME administrative graphical interfaces
Manipulating system default environment files

System Installation and Updating

Installation types and methods
Installing the Solaris 11 operating system
Maintaining the system via patches
Adding additional products to the system (packages)
Reconfiguring the Solaris 11 kernel via parameters (mdb)

Startup and Shutdown

Components involved in the Solaris 11 boot
Grub loader stages and configuration
Manipulating EEPROM commands and parameters
Default bootstrap
Boot to single-user mode
Solaris fail-safe boot features
SMF startup methods, tools, and procedures
Understanding milestones
Adding procedures to the startup mechanisms
Shutdown methods and control

Managing of System Users

UID and GID concepts
Creation of a user account
Security through password aging
- password lifetime and composition
- using password history and dictionaries
Controlling access by groups
Login sequence
Setting up user environment files
Using and maintaining user login files
Viewing and controlling running processes
Basic setup and control of the GNOME
- gdm-binary (login manager)
- .gnome* files and directories (menus and layouts)
Remote graphical environments
- vncserver / vncviewer
- /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

Managing Disk and Backup Volumes

Commands to manipulate ufs disks/filesystems
- partitioning disk surfaces with format
- creating ufs file systems (newfs)
- manipulating file system structures
- verifying file system structures with fsck
- making file systems available to software (mount)
Creating and using zfs file systems
Commands to manipulate archival volumes:
- tar utility
- ufsdump and ufsrestore utilities
- ufs snapshots
- zfs snapshots
- zfs send and receive utilities

Monitoring System Activity

Informational Utilities
The vmstat utility
The iostat utility
The sar utility
The netstat utility
Maintaining swap and paging space(s)
Building and using the top facility
An Introduction to kstat and DTrace

Introduction to Solaris 11 Virtualization

Zones concepts
Configuring and installing a zone
Basic zone administration

Network Setup and Configuration

TCP/IP address selection
Host names and related files
Configuring network devices
Network testing with ping
Network utilities: telnet, rlogin, rcp, rsh, ssh
Controlling network services via SMF (inetadm)

Maintaining System Integrity

Login and user accounting
Command/process level accounting
Using cron tables
Managing core and crash dump files